Pains vs Hurt - What's the difference?
pains | hurt |
(used in plural) Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
* , chapter=22
, title= (pain)
To be painful.
To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
To undermine, impede, or damage.
An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience)
* How to overcome old hurts of the past
(archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
* 1605 , Shakespeare, King Lear vii
* John Locke
(archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
* Shakespeare
(heraldiccharge) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
(engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
A husk.
As nouns the difference between pains and hurt
is that pains is while hurt is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).As verbs the difference between pains and hurt
is that pains is (pain) while hurt is to be painful.As an adjective hurt is
wounded, physically injured.pains
English
Noun
(head)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* be at pains * take painsAnagrams
* * ----hurt
English
Verb
- Does your leg still hurt ? / It is starting to feel better.
- If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
- This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.
Synonyms
* wound, injureDerived terms
* wouldn't hurt a flySee also
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- I have received a hurt .
- The pains of sickness and hurts all men feel.
- Thou dost me yet but little hurt .
